"A thousand dead humanitarians in three years - when did that become normal?"
United Nations Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher on the violence facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones.
Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4cDWXbb
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Officials from the government in #China have been praising the countries which have denied flyover permission for the plane carrying the President of #Taiwan, causing him to cancel his trip to Eswatini. The government in #Taipei has blamed #Beijing for pressuring countries into doing this.
A major European company risks losing a €320 million EU-funded contract in Senegal to a state-owned, heavily subsidised Chinese competitor
This is CRRC, the state owned company they edited the tender in Portugal over the EU's foreign subsidies probe...
De maatregelen hebben al effect. 🤐
Federaal energieakkoord: De overheid wil telewerk aanmoedigen en het gebruik van openbaar vervoer verhogen.
Vlaamse regering: We verplichten onze ambtenaren om meer naar kantoor te komen en we schrappen buslijnen.
🇪🇪 ERR: The U.S. paused ammunition deliveries to Estonia (especially HIMARS rockets) due to the war with Iran, likely for months, not weeks.
Estonia says it has enough anti-tank weapons but may seek alternatives or rethink purchases if delays continue.
When Trump talked about ushering in a "new golden age," he was talking about a new golden age for his family's pocketbook.
🇮🇷 Iran says it won’t attend Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan, - Tasnim
🇺🇸 JD Vance has canceled his planned trip to Pakistan.
1/ Russia is entering a full-scale debt crisis, according to newly published official figures. Non-payments have reached an all-time high equivalent to nearly 4% of GDP or a fifth of the entire federal budget. It's a fresh sign of a deepening economic crisis worsened by war. ⬇️
Rusland vervalst cijfers om haperende economie te verdoezelen, stelt hoofd militaire inlichtingendienst Zweden
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 A decision on granting Ukraine a €90 billion EU loan will be made within the next 24 hours, - Kaja Kallas.
"Anyone saying Ukraine should give up territory for peace is out of their mind."
That's not Kyiv. That's retired US Army General Mark Hertling.
His verdict: Ukraine is the ultimate fighting force in Europe right now.
"The founders of the American political system didn't anticipate the emergence of political parties becoming more important than institutional prerogatives. The failure of Congress to foreclose presidential authority has destabilized the structure, enabling executive overreach."
"Russia isn't winning."
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas: Russia is gaining no ground, Ukraine is making headway, the economy is faltering — and giving Russia unearned territory isn't on the table.
NEW: Swedish intelligence assessments are consistent with ISW’s longstanding assessments about the significant challenges the Russian economy is facing and the Kremlin’s efforts to conceal these issues to falsely present Russia as able to sustain its war indefinitely. 🧵(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar042026
Available numbers show that last year Russia produced 1100 cruise missiles. The EU - 300. Ballistic missiles: Russia - 900; the EU- 0.
To deter Russia we must outproduce Russia.
Today in @itre.europarl.europa.eu I presented how @ec.europa.eu is stepping in to help MSs and industry to ramp up🇪🇺
What is the key difference between Ukraine&Russia?
Russia is a vertical power structure-with a tsar at the top,lackeys beneath,slaves below.In imperial Russia,the individual tends to see themselves as a "subject"rather than a citizen,often displaying a form of learned helplessness toward the state⤵️
China’s cheap low-carbon tech has already been pummeling the competition.
The Iran war is boosting that dominance.
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New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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Millions will go hungry if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed
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From The Economist
It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.
Chilling...
One happy end 🇺🇦 compared to how many others still unresolved❔️
#RussianWarcrimesInUkraine
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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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We should repeat this every day: russia is intentionally, deliberately, murdering Ukrainian children, day after day, for the sheer pleasure of it.
We can never forgive this—and above all, we have no right to forgive it.
These crimes will haunt the russians—all russians—for as long as they exist.
Since the beginning of the War in Iran, Pegah Banihashemi and I have argued that it is unlikely to end quickly. The dynamics we've highlighted (regime resiliency; incompatible interests between the belligerents) persist. That's why we argued a week ago in TIME that the ceasefire wouldn't last
